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Superstitious? Check Out 5 New Year’s Day Rituals For Good Luck!

What do you want most out of 2010? Love? Money? Chace Crawford? Read on for some awesome (and weird) New Year’s Day rituals!

As the kin of superstitious Southern women, I have been raised to treat old wives’ tales with the utmost respect and caution. I have never, ever tipped over salt without promptly throwing some over my shoulder and don’t even get me started on walking under ladders.

So for us superstitious sorts, New Year’s Day offers the chance go totally nuts with odd little customs and traditions.

1. At the stroke of midnight, make sure you have money in your pocket and open your doors and windows to let the old year out and the new year in (don’t make it go down the chimney).

2. NOTHING should leave the house on the first day of the year, not even garbage and ideally, not even you. This will keep you from overspending and having people leave you all year.

3. Pay careful attention to the first person to set foot in your house on January 1. Folklore says that blonds, redheads and women are all bad luck (what the heck?!). If you buy this, call up your swarthiest guy friend and make him bring over pizza!

4. Avoid eating poultry, too. Since chickens scratch at their food, it’s believed that eating fowl will cause you to “scratch around” for your meals all year long. Stick to a bowl of black eyed peas (the food, not the band) which encourages fertility.